[Healeys] 4 hands are better than 2 ?

[Mackie, Stephen]

My first car was an 1967 Austin Healey Sprite Mark IV. Forty years later
I still have and enjoy it. It is a part of me now. Last year I acquired
a 1962 Austin Healey 3000 Tricarb and with the help of friends and my 11
year old daughter managed to get it started. It's a great car. She loves
both of the cars and helps me fix and maintain them. I wish my 15 year
old son was as enthusiastic. Her small hands and good eyes have also
been especially useful.
Steve Mackie
Seattle WA..

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of john close
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 9:14 AM
To: John Vrugtman; Healeys
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 4 hands are better than 2 ?

Interesting semi-thread. Being a high school teacher, I'm peopled-out at
the end of the day, so I treasure introspective alone time when I work
on my Healey. When more hands are beneficial, wife or kids are good
helpers. When I was restoring my BN6, my daughter was 10 years old. Her
little hands were especially helpful. - JRC



--- On Wed, 4/15/09, John Vrugtman <javrugtman at htcnet.org> wrote:


From: John Vrugtman <javrugtman at htcnet.org>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 4 hands are better than 2 ?
To: "Jerry Costanzo" <grumpyinloomis at ssctv.net>
Cc: healeys at Autox.Team.Net
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 2:40 PM


I agree.  I just finished helping my wife cover the AL bow on the BJ8
project; she is much better at that than I.  She was invaluable in doing
the seats, and has helped with many other tasks, that took more than two
hands, not to mention the tolerance of all the costs.

John
66BJ8
64BJ8 in progress

Jerry Costanzo wrote:
> All this talk about wives made me wonder.  My wife has been the one
> that purchased 2 of my 3 cars.  She got better deals than I did.  We
> restored
them
> as a team.  What I don't understand is how you get some of the
> projects
done
> without a helper.  That extra set of hands is essential.  As an
> example: we just finished the rear seat back on a BJ8.  I don't know
> how to do it by yourself.  There was lots of pulling and staples which

> required extra
hands.
> I find lots of projects that require an extra set of hands.
>
> How do you guys get the job done?
>
> Jerry
> BN4
> TR3A
> BJ8
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